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 The Bayu-Undan field lies in the Timor Sea, 500km offshore of north-west Darwin.
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 Testing the Semisubmersible Eagle, on the Undan field.
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 Artist's impression of the Bayu-Undan upstream development concept.
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 Schematic of the contract strategy for the Bayu-Undan field.
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 The development plans graph. Field development commenced in 1999 and is expected to lead to the first production of condensate and LPG in 2001.
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 The FPSO, showing the single-point mooring.
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 The Buffalo Venture FPSO.
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 The wellhead platform.
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 Process equipment on the Buffalo Venture.
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 Adding buoyancy modules during the riser installation.
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 Installation of the wellhead platform by the Ron Tappmeyer.
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 Towing the wellhead platform to the Big Bank.
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 The FPSO, showing single-point mooring and swivel.
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 The Northern Carnarvon basin, showing WA-267-P.
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 Artists impression of the Gorgon development, showing the main platform and subsea facilities.
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 Schematic of the Gorgon development.
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 Artists impression of the Gorgon development, showing the main platform and subsea facilities.
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 Aerial view of the Marine 5000, used to implement the AU$300 million drilling programme.
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 A side view of the Marine 5000.
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 Lifting the pre-assembled units (PAUs) onto the Northern Endeavour at the Sembawang shipyard, in Singapore.
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 Fabrication of the PAUs at United Construction, Freemantle.
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 Lower turret at Noell Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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 Lifting the turret gantry structure onto the Northern Endeavour at Sembawang.
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 FPSO mooring piles.
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 Northern Endeavour en route to the Timor Sea. Clearly visible is the debutaniser column, behind the forward internal turret.
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 Liuhua 11-1 field top carbonate depth structure map.
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 Computer-generated schematic of Liuhua 11-1 FPS and FPSO.
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 The FPS is a modified semi-submersible drilling rig. Shown are the 25 flexible catenary lines on the FPS riser system.
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 FPS Nanhai Tiao Zhan was converted from a semi-submersible drilling rig, purchased in September 1993.
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 FPSO Nanhai Sheng Li. The FPSO supports the processing equipment necessary to handle up to 5,000bbl of oil and 300,000bbl of total fluids per day.
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 The shuttle tanker Navion Munin, on location at the Lufeng field.
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 The Navion Munin cargo tank section consists of 18 cargo tanks and two slop tanks, giving a total capacity of 101,400m3.
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 Navion Munin is moored using the submerged turret system originally designed for shuttle-tanker loading.
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 Production on-board Navion Munin is designed to process a wide range of oil and water rates.
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 Schematic of the FPSO over the Lufeng field.
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 Schematic of the anchoring system, employed to moor the Navion Munin.
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 Schematic of the subsea completion on Lufeng.
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 The Malampaya field development diagram.
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 Schematic of the Malmpaya complex.
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 The mating of the integrated topside facilities and the gravity base structure of the Malampaya platform.
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 To ensure an even surface, 361 mounds of rock were placed, totalling 17,000t.
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 A channel 150m wide and 12m deep was dredged from Green Beach to Subic Bay.
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 The concrete gravity structure is permanently ballasted by placing 75,000t of iron ore in its open cells.
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 Rock dumping enables scour protection of the gravity structure.
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 The $64 million EPIC contract for the provision of a platform was won by Bouygues Offshore.
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 The topsides, in the form of a six-leg jack-up barge, were towed on top of the submerged jacket. Afterwards, the deck legs were lowered.
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 The 1200t six-leg jacket, equipped with temporary catamaran buoyancy.
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 Following the deck installation, the risers, boat landings and caissons were hooked up.
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 The Stag A platform was elevated with a 20m air gap.
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 The topsides and jacket, ready for sailaway.
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 The Wonnich topsides were lowered into position.
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 The transportation barge leaving Freemantle harbour.
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 The lower substructure being loaded out.
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 The installation of the topsides.
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 The upper and lower substructure, topsides and piles en route to the site.
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 Location map of Langsa.
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 The block location map.
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 The Langsa field covers 77km2 and is found 90km ENE of Mobil/Exxon’s giant Arun gas/condensate field.
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 The PM-3 Commercial Arrangement Area (CAA) project centres on the installation of four new wellhead platforms, a central processing platform, compression annexe platform, floating storage offloading vessel and inter-field pipelines.
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 The topsides were installed in a novel floatover operation using the COSCO Class 2 dynamic positioned (DP) Heavy Lift Vessel (HLV) Tai An Kou.
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 This was the first floatover performed using DP control and the first such operation for the Tai An Kou.
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 Development drilling of the 60-well programme commenced in October 2002.
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 The PM-3 CAA project will extract oil and gas from six different offshore fields.
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 Phase 1 oil production commenced in July 1997. Phases 2 and 3 achieved peak production early 2004.
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 The West Seno field in the Makassar Strait PSC is Indonesia's first deepwater development.
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 The first tension leg platform, TLP A, was installed in February 2003.
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 Development plan of the West Seno field.
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 The floating production unit, located 500m from TLP A, is a spread-moored barge lying in 3,200ft of water.
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 The Lorelay pipelay vessel laid the lines out to approx. 1,060m of water at the FPU location.
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 Minerva, Casino Geographe and Thylacine are all located in the Otway Basin, at the southern tip of Australia.
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 Minerva came on stream in early 2005. The field is located in VIC/L22 permit, approximately 10km from Port Campbell in 60m of water.
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 The Minerva development consists of two subsea well completions producing through 10km of 10in pipeline to the shore.
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 Schematic of the Geographe / Thylacine development.
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 The Mutineer-Exeter oil fields are being developed using the MODEC Venture II FPSO.
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 The Mutineer-Exeter development is located 150km north of Dampier on the north-west coast of Australia, in the offshore Carnarvon Basin.
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 MODEC Venture II can be evacuated from the field due to its unique disconnectable turret system.
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 The FPSO is installed in 156m of water and is capable of processing 100,000bopd.
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 The FPSO was converted from the 140,000dwt 1992 Mitsui-built double-hulled Suezmax tanker Fairway.
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 Four wells will be connected to an FPSO as part of the Tui Area Oil Project.
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 The drilling operation includes using the Ocean Patriot for drilling up to three exploration wells in the offshore Taranaki basin.
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 Three oil fields - Tui, Amokura and Pateke reserves located in PEP 38460, the offshore Taranaki basin, New Zealand - are being developed in phases.
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 The FPSO, which has been designed to cater to different types of offtake oil tankers, will handle 120,000 barrels of oil per day.
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 The Kikeh Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel.
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 THE FPSO Kikeh has a storage capacity of two million barrels.
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 The Technip spar will incorporate a tender assisted drilling rig to drill and complete the Kikeh wells.
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 At the bow, is the external turret which can accommodate up to 17 flexible risers.
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 The Kikeh subsea systems are supplied by FMC.
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 The Rockwater 2 will provide installation support to the Kikeh FSPO.
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